Sentence examples for program synopsis from inspiring English sources

The two-page program synopsis informs us of things omitted onstage.

The historic record of the Rodin-Claudel relationship does not always coincide with the program synopsis, and neither version helps you to decipher the stage action.

Even the writer of the program synopsis for "Moïse et Pharaon Mosesses and Pharaoh"), which the Collegiate Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall under James Bagwell on Wednesday evening, evinced frustration with the opera's plot.

If you hadn't read the program synopsis, though, it's unlikely you would have much idea what was going on, particularly since the dancers aren't wearing makeup or costumes that indicate age or seniority: when the two fathers initiate the duel, it looks like Rodrigo's kid brothers acting up.

(The program synopsis indicates that Rothbart uses his swans to ensnare young princes on a regular basis, but how would you know?) At the end he is vanquished by a group of swans that apparently suddenly finds the will to attack him.

Its presentation of Vladimir Vasiliev's "Cinderella" at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center departed liberally from the program's synopsis, based on Nikolai Volkov's 1940s libretto.

You don't need to read the program's printed synopsis to understand the outpouring of passions onstage.

And the program features a contrived plot synopsis instead of a standard explication of the story.

There's a synopsis in the program, but it gets a little complicated.

The synopsis in the program would also be helpful, were it not a poem by the director, Moses Pendleton, titled "Synapses," and studded with awful puns like "Fro ZEN Awakening" and "the Avant Gardner".

In addition to a synopsis in the program and an introduction by Ms. Venu's father (who runs the Natanakairali center in India where she trained under Ammannur Madhava Chakyar), scene-by-scene supertitles helped a novice not feel abandoned.